Bengali litterateurs protest ‘omission’ of Bengali from Sahitya Akademi Award this year

Writers and scholars from West Bengal have raised questions on why Bengali literary works and writers were excluded from the 2024 Sahitya Akademi Award despite Bengali being deemed a ‘classical language’ by the Government of India last year

​Writers and scholars from West Bengal have raised questions on why Bengali literary works and writers were excluded from the 2024 Sahitya Akademi Award despite Bengali being deemed a ‘classical language’ by the Government of India last year